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GEABING.

APPLICATION FILED PR. 11, 1906.

Patented Sept. 7, 1909. 2 SKEBTB-SHEET;1.

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GEABING Arrmonlon Hum APB-11, 1906.

Patented Sept. 7, 1909. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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BYj W wfzzeg eg IL-LIAM JACKSON SCHOONOVER, OF DES MOINES, IOW'A,ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, T8 IOWA WASHING MACHINE COMPANY, OF DESMDINES, IOWA,

A CORPORATION GE IOJVA.

GEARINQ.

Application filed April 11, 1908.

Specification of Letters ?atent.

"lb all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLiAM J. SCHOON- own, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Des Moines, in the county of Folk and State of Iowa,have invented new and useful Improvements in Gearing, of which thefollowing a full, clear, concise, and exact 5 Other objects andadvantages of the iii-- ventionflill be brought out and made to appearin thefollowing specification, reference being had tothc accompanyingdrawings, in. which,-

Fi ure 1 is a side elevation of the carin device with la part of thewringer stand broken away, and show in dotted lines the cover and partsattached thereto raised up from the top of the tub; Fig. 2 is a plan ofthe top of the washing machine; Fig. 3 is a view in perspective of thepivot-rack; Fig. 4 is a detail showing, the swivel clevis on each sideof the lever; Fig. 5 is a view on thedottcd lines '55 of Fig. 4; and,Fig. 6 is a view in perspective of the bearing plate.

In the foregoing construction which I have worked out to embody myinvention in practical form, a tub I mounted on legs 2 has its interiorfluted or ribbed in the usual manner to provide a rubbing surface. Acover 3 is hinged to the top of the tub by the hinges i. The cover has areinforcing piece 5 on its underside, (see Fig. 1). On one side of thetop of the tub a wringer-stand 6 is secured. A three-armed bearing plate7 is secured to the door 3by the bolt 8, and a yoke-head 9 is mounted onsaid bearing plate and secured by bolts 10 passing through the plate andsecured to the door 3. A pinion ll'has a shaft 12, which journals in theyoke-head 9 and extends through the bearing plate into the tub. Thisshaft is designed for operating an agitator of ordinary form, indicatedby the numerals 13 and 14, and

shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. The particular form of this agitatorhowever, forms 2 no part of my present invention, and is therefore notparticularly shown or described herein. A substantially heart-shapedpivot rack 15 provided with the arm 16 is pivotully mounted at 17 on thebearing plate 7. and has its front portion 18 hearing-011' a ridgedportion oi. the said supporting plate.

In operation, the mechanism on the cover of the tub is connected to thepitinan 19 by inserting a pin 20011 the underside of the pitinan into asocket at the end of the arm 16. This pitman is pivoted to a bolt 22 inthe clevis 23 which clevis is connected to the operating lever 21 by aswivel joint shown in detail in Fi s. 4 and 5. As there shown, theclevis is pivotally mounted'on the pin 24 which. projects from the plate25 secured. to the lever 21 by the bolts .46. The forward portion of thepitman 19 is bent downwardly to have the end thereof in juxtaposition tothe top of the cover whereby when the latter is raised the pitman isautomatic ally disconnected from the pivot rack (see Fig. l). The lowerend of the lever 21 is bifurcated and fits over and is pivotallyfulcrumed on the bracket 27 secured to the tub by bolts 28 through theflanges 29. On the side of the tub is secured a plate 31 to whichjournals 32 and 33 are secured. A fly-wheel provided on its inner sidewith an eX-G tended hub '34 and pinion 35 is mounted on" V the journal32. The spur-wheel 36 is mounted on the journal 33 in mesh with thepinion 35 on the flywheel and the pitinan 37 is connected at one endwith a crank pin 35 on the spur Wheel 36, and at the other end isconnected with the operating hand lever 21 in a manner exactly similarto that heretofore described with respect to the pitman 19.

With the above arrangen'ient of devices, the operation of the machine isas follows: Thecover is opencdto place the contents in the tub. Asstated hereinbefore when the cover is opened the pitman associated withthe pivot rack is automatically detached therefrom. After placing thecontents in the tub, the cover is closed and the pin on the pitman isinserted in the socket of the If, now, the oper-- arm on the pivot-rack.ating lever is oscillated, an alternating rotary motion is communicatedto the agitator head while a continuous rotary motion iscoinmunicated tothe fly-wheel. It will readily be understood that the fly-wheel in apivoted rack in mesh with the pinion, said the above arrangement has asteadying effect in the working of the machine and renders the operationthereof easier.

1 wish it to be understood that I do not desire to be limited to theexact details of construction shown and described for obviousmodifications will occur to a person skilled in the art.

"he inventi n herein disclosed does not relate in any way toimprovements in the washing machine proper, but consists wholly of theimproved gearing device foroperating the agitator shaft of a washingmachine or other similar device. However, one of the important sists inthe means for automatically throw ing the gearing out of engagement withthe agitator shaft when the hinged cover on the washing machine israised. And for this reason, it is necessary in the specification andclaims to include a body portion which may be the tub of a washingmachine, and a hinged member which may be the cover of a washingmachine.

One of the advantages that is gained by the construction and arrangementof the gearing device that embodies my invention is that by arrangingthe balance wheel in a vertical plane at one side of the support. and byalso arranging the large gear wheel in a Vertical plane adjacent to thebalance wheel,

a single upright operating lever may be used and it may be connected bya pitman direct with the large gear wheel, and the said pitman may beconnected with the lever at any desired distance above the fulcrum. ofthe lever so that the operator may give to the lever a length of strokethat is most convenient for the average operator, and the large gearwheel may be conveniently and easily operated by the pitman connectedwith the lever when the lever is given a length of stroke mostconvenient for the operator.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:

1. An improved gearing device, comprising a body, a hinged member on thebody, a shaft mounted in the hinged member, a lever fulcrumed to thebody, a pitman connected with the lever, means interposed between thepitman and said shaft for imparting an alternating rotary motion to theshaft,

features of my invention conbody, a pitman connected with the leverhavin a 111 to en a e the o aenin in said 0 arm, and also having anextension to engage said hinged portion, said parts being so arrangedthat when the hinged portion is raised, the extension 011 thepitman willengage it and force the pin out of engagement with the arm of the rack.

3. An improved gearing, comprising a body, an upright shaft connectedtherewith, a lever fulcrumed to the body, a pitman connected with it,means interposed between the pitman and the upright shaft for impartingan alternating rotary motion to the shaft, a balance wheel at the sideof the body, a second pitman connected with said lever, and a speedincreasing'gearing,device connected with the second pitman and with saidbalance wheel.

4. A gearing device, comprising abody,a

hinged member on the body, an upright shaft in the hinged member, alever on the body, means interposed between the lever and the shaft forimparting an alternating rotary motion to the shaft,'said meansincluding a detachable feature arranged to be automatically disengagedwhen the hinged member is raised.

5. An improved gearing, comprising a body, an upright shaft connectedtherewith, a lever fulcrumed to the body, a pitman, a I swivel joint atone side of the lever connected to the pitman, and means interposedbetween said pitman and said upright shaft for imparting an alternatingrotary motion to the shaft when the pitman is recipr ocated, a secondpitman, a swivel joint connecting it with the opposite side ofsaid-lever, a gear wheel connected with the second pitman and arrangedat the side of the. body, a balance wheel adjacent to the gear wheel,and a small pinion connected with the balance wheel and in mesh withsaid gear wheel.

6. An improved gearing device, c0mpris-- ing a support, a leverfulcrumed to the support, a pitman connected with the lever above itsfulcrum-,- a large gear wheel connected to said pitman, a small gearwheel in mesh with the large one, a balance wheel connected with thesmall gear wheel, an upright shaft, and means for imparting analternating rotary motion to sald upright shaft during the time that thebalance wheel is being continuously rotated in one direction. I

7. An improved gearing device, comprising a support, a lever fulcrumedto the support, a pitman pivoted to the lever, a large gear wheel at theside of the support in an upright position having said pitman connectedto it, a small gear wheel in an upright position in mesh with the largeone, a

balance wheel in an upright position at the" side of the supportconnected to the small gear wheel, an upright shaft, and means forimparting an alternating rotary motion to the upright. shaft duringth'e'time that the balancewheel is being continually rotated in onedirection.

8. A gearing device of the class described, comprising a support, anupright shaft, a lever, means operatedby a reciprocation of the leverfor imparting an alternating rotary motion to said shaft, a pitman.operatively connected with the lever above its fulcrum, a large gearwheel inan upright position connected to said pitman, a small gear wheelin mesh with the large one, and a balance wheel in an upright posit-ionconnected with the small gear wheel, for the purpose of imparting acontinuous, rotary motion to the balance wheel when the said lever isreciprocated.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presenceof two witnesses.

. I WILLIAM JACKSON SCHOONOVER.

Witnesses:

W. H; CARR, H. O. RICHARDSON.

